Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

33.

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin